Fedora 9 : ghostscript-8.63-2.fc9 (2009-2883)

high Nessus Plugin ID 35983

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security update for integer overflows (CVE-2009-0583) and upper bounds checks (CVE-2009-0584) in the ICC profile handling.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487742

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487744

http://www.nessus.org/u?d59c95f0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 35983

File Name: fedora_2009-2883.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/22/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghostscript, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0583, CVE-2009-0584

BID: 34184

CWE: 119, 189

FEDORA: 2009-2883